Michael Mann Shows Global Warming "Slowdown" is Fleeting

[Schneibster]

In this recent paper from Michael Mann, the recent so-called "global warming slowdown" is shown to be indistinguishable from the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or AMO, previously called the "NAO" or "North Atlantic Oscillation" before its full character had been measured. Dr. Mann's original "Hockey Stick" paper was based on study of the NAO, so this is familiar data territory for him.

 

Mann says,

 

"Some researchers have in the past attributed a portion of Northern Hemispheric warming to a warm phase of the AMO," said Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology. "The true AMO signal, instead, appears likely to have been in a cooling phase in recent decades, offsetting some of the anthropogenic warming temporarily."

 

So another denial falls by the wayside, and global warming wins again.

 

Full details are available here and I will be fairly available for questions unless ajb takes up all my available CPU cycles.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Schneibster